The Objectives & Functions of Temple Exnora

A. OBJECTIVES OF ‘TEMPLE EXNORA’:
To mobilise the devotes to keep the Temple (inside and outside) clean, beautiful and green and enviro-friendly ensuring proper amenities including providing potable drinking water and toilet facility. Deepening and maintaining temple tank and facilitating Rain Water Harvesting. Introducing a proper system for the pilgrims safety and keeping the streets around the temple spick and span and green. To preserve the temple’s heritage. , by maintaining the civil structure, preventing defacing of the temple walls, keeping and maintaining the temple clean.

B. FUNCTIONS of Temple Exnora:

• Clean Temple : To keep the whole Temple campus garbage-free, sewage free. Ensure even prasadams are not littered anywhere & everywhere. (e.g. Vibhudhi & Kunkumam)
• Introduce waste to wealth concepts (Solid Waste Management): by using Exnora’s “Zero Waste Management Programme”, particularly Exnora’s Source Solid Waste Management (SoSoWaM). Almost 90% of waste generated will be converted as wealth. Attractive separate trash bins for Compostable and Recyclable waste in green and red colour respectively can be kept both inside and outside. Signs on cleanliness will be displayed. Regular cleaning activities will be carried out by volunteers, called Temple Beautifiers .The devotees are requested to volunteer to be a part of the cleaning campaign. The terminology for volunteering to do work is called Shramdhan or Thirupani or Uzhavara Pani . In a corner TEMPLE ZERO WASTE CENTRE will be located which will not affect the Temple’s heritage/ beauty or create bad smell where composting and separation of recyclables will take place.
  Please use the following web link and know every thing about Source Solid Waste Management http://www.homeexnora.org/clean_solidwaste_compos.html
• Introduce Waste to Wealth Concepts (Liquid Waste management):
  Exnora will help the temple in also Exnora’s Source Liquid Waste Management (SoLiWaM).
  The waste water sewage and sullage will be 100 % made use of, for greening activities. While the sewage will be treated bacterially, the sullage will be used straightaway for watering gardens
  Please use the following web link and know every thing about Liquid Waste Management http://www.homeexnora.org/clean_liquidwaste.html
• Introduce Waste to Wealth Concepts (Gas Waste Management) SoGaWaM- Source Gas Waste Management::
  Through anaerobic digestion out of organic waste and cow and other animal dung , bio gas (methane) can be generated and used for cooking in Madapalli.
  Please use the following web link and know every thing about Gas Waste Management http://www.homeexnora.org/clean_gaswaste.html
• People who see and practise these hygiene concepts will carry the same to their home and their home will have these easy to introduce sanitary amenities. (See www.homeexnora.org and will turn their street as a model (see http://www.exnorainternational.org/start_civic_exnora.shtml )
• Green Temple : To carry on greening activities. To revive the Temple parks (Nandavanams). To develop garden outside the compound of the temple as a beautification act and to prevent encroachments and stop people dirtying the temple and its surroundings. Temple Exnora will also plant trees in all the roads around the temple in the whole village / town (see: http://www.exnorainternational.org/green_cross.html
• Hygiene Toilet : The most important amenity should be creation of Exnora People’s Toilet / pay and use toilet and bathrooms outside. The solid, liquid and gas waste of the toilet will be converted as compost, garden water and cooking gas respectively.
  (see http://www.exnorainternational.org/toilets_corporation.html & http://www.exnorainternational.org/project_borda.shtml)
• Temple Tank RWH :To desilt Temple tank and introduce pond rain water harvesting .To also introduce well rain water harvesting. (see www.neerexnora.com )

       SUMMARY

• To Keep Temple Clean.
• To carry out necessary repairs to the building and walls.
• To take care of Temple structure safety.
• To keep vigil against disfigurement and defacing of walls, art and architecture of the Temples by Vandals and Visitors.
• To remove trees growing on shrines, towers, buildings and monuments.
• To exercise vigil in prevention of advertisements and commercial boards on the temple wall.
• To preserve heritage
• Noise Pollution Prevention: To prevent noise pollution by restricting the noise of loud speakers See Exnora’s “Voice against Noise”. Browse: http://www.homeexnora.org/pollu_noise.html
• To take up with the Government and Charitable Organisations for rehabilitation of beggars
• To keep the streets (Veedhies e.g Mada Veedhis ) spick and span (starting Street Civic Exnora there. See: http://www.exnorainternational.org/start_civic_exnora.shtml)
• To arrange orderly parking of vehicles around temple to prevent traffic jams.
• Social Service : A number social services will be rendered e.g Tuition centre for poor children see http://www.exnorain ternational.org/tuition_centre.html & many other like Text Book Bank, Clothes Bank, , Food Bank, Spectacles bank, Medicine Bank, etc (see : http://www.exnorainternational.org/other_divisions.shtml )
• Volunteers Bank : Temple Exnora will use Exnora’s Volunteer bank . They will avail the services of seniors citizens belonging to Senior Citizens Exnora : see http://www.exnorainternational.org/senior_citizen.html , avail youth service : see http://www.exnorainternational.org/youth.html , avail student service : see http://www.exnorainternational.org/students.html and avail the services women volunteers : see http://www.exnorainternational.org/women.html
• Recognition : To encourage and recognise who are all involved in the Temple Work.
• Important : Before commencement of the work, the Temple Exnora Office bearers should arrange to take photos of places which they have decided to clean , green ,improve & beautify and again take the photo of the same place after the improvement and send both photos to Temple Exnora National Coalition for uploading the Before and After photos along with the group photos of the team that did it for posting in the web site..